Move to end UK broadband access row

Mobile phone operators have been summoned to a meeting on Thursday with Lord Carter, the communications minister, in an effort to solve a row which is threatening to derail plans for all homes to have broadband Internet access by 2012. Kip Meek, a former senior official at Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, has been chosen by the government to oversee efforts to solve the mobile operators' dispute over radio spectrum. He will have the task of trying to find a compromise between the operators by the end of April.